Home Office

EU Nationals: Disability

Angela Crawley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many EU citizens residing in the UK have a disability.

Brandon Lewis: Following publication of our paper Safeguarding the position of EU Citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU on 26 June, my officials have begun discussions with a range of groups representing EU citizens in the UK, including those representing vulnerable groups.We are committed to continuing this dialogue over the coming months. DWP publish disability facts and figures, and ONS publish statistics on the UK resident population, however these do not include data on the number of EU citizens residing in the UK who have a disability.

Passports

David Hanson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many passport applications processed by the Passport Office missed the three week target for processing in each month between 1 January and 30 June 2017.

Brandon Lewis: Between 1 January 2017 and 30 June 2017, 1,352 UK passport applications not requiring further information took longer than three weeks to process.This represents 0.06% of the 2.4 million UK applications issued in this period.